Feedback Sports Recreational Bike Work Stand - Spinner Knob Clamp - Steel

Video Transcript for Feedback Sports Recreational Bike Work Stand Review

AJ: What's up, everybody It's AJ with etrailer.com. Today, we're going to checking out the Feedback Sports Bike Workstation Stand. What this is going to do is grab onto your bike, and hold in the air so that you can actually work on it, and not worry about having it be on the ground, hold it up with one hand. If you have to, I know that you can flip the bike over and set it on the seat and the handles the work on it, but you don't want to do that. You want to keep your bike, if it's a nice one like this, a carbon fiber, you want it up in the air, hung there so you can actually work on what you need to. Let's check it out.

I'm not much of a cyclist, more a weightlifter myself, but Joe here, my friend, worked with him for over 12 years, now, is a cyclist. He does it all the time. Wanted to ask you, what would you look for if you we're looking for a bike stand Joe: Okay. First off, just being straight up honest, I do have a bike stand already. I have a fork mount bike stand, that I use all the time.

It does most of my work. I really like it, because it holds the bike steady when I do it. I don't like this wiggly part, which is inherent in the bike stand like that. Given that, I've actually been wanting a stand like this on my own, because I would like.. For me, this would be perfect for washing a bike outside.

I could easily, on my other stand, keep inside and bring it outside. It's a pain. This is nice and light, where I can just tuck it somewhere in a corner of my garage, pull it out, wash my bike. As I was looking at this thing earlier, I was playing with it and saying, "This would be handy, compared to my other one I have already, to work on quick adjustments." I have a lot of friends that bring their bikes over, and I'll do a quick adjustment on a derailer, check out the bikes. This is quick and easy to pop in there, instead of taking the wheels off, as the rack I have already.

Like I said, I would use this. It'd be a good thing to have to wash the bike instead of just doing that. For a guy at home that does tinker a little bit, has a basic toolkit, I could see this as a perfect accessory to that toolkit, with what they have already. It's cool if you have to tune the derailer a little bit. I was playing with it. The whole thing doesn't bounce around too much, unless I make it do that. Any adjustments I need to, I don't need the stand to be really super tight, just hold it for me and make these fine adjustments on here like I need to. AJ: You seemed like you like it overall. Is there any drawbacks that you see that might be an issue Joe: Yeah. Since we changed the bike around, and more conventionally you would actually hold a bike by the seat post here, to work on it. However, some higher end stands will allow you to have the bike sit more horizontal. This one, you have a knob here that locks it in place, and the weight of it here was still going to allow it to slide down a little bit as you work on it. I got it tightened up pretty good, but you can definitely, you can do that. If you don't want it to move at all, you'll probably move on to more expensive, more feature, bike stand. If you already know that already, you're probably not looking at this stand anyway. For a guy at home, who just wants to get into it, I think this would be good. That's about the only drawback. Now, you can also, since we got an aluminum bike here, you can put this here and clamp it like we had it originally on here. Scolded AJ, about watching the cables here when you do that. AJ: They we're underneath the clamp. Joe: That's one more thing to worry about. If you can, always do it up here. If you want to keep it level and work on it, then put it down here, and just be careful with the cables. AJ: Do you see any drawback to not being able to adjust the height Does that not matter that much Are you going to be sitting in a chair when you're working on your bike Are you going to be staying here messing with it Joe: That's a good question, because sometimes on my fork mount, I'll use a chair, or I'll sit on here and I'll be changing a gear, or playing with the derailer up front, what not. Sometimes I just want to sit down and do work. This is the right height, for me. I don't know about you. AJ: I can make it work. Joe: Sometimes it comes up short for you. You never know. Overall, I think it's a good unit. I would start from here. You can always go up, and then this could always be a backup one if you don't use it as much as you think, and you want some more features. AJ: Cool. Joe: Yeah. I'll probably end up picking one up for myself as a spare one to wash my bike, quite honestly. AJ: You didn't seem too thrilled with it, at first. Joe: I walked up and I just did this number with it. It actually takes quite a bit of force to really make it unstable. AJ: Awesome. Thanks, Joe. First off, I'm going to look at how it holds the bike. You got a clamp like system here, that we've got it on the seat post of our bike, because this is a carbon fiber, not going to put that around there and risk damaging the top tube of the bike. Now, there's other kinds out there. Stands that hold it by the front tire, instead you'll have to remove that, and attach it that way. That limits you on how you can tilt the bike, and how you can move it around to work on it. I think this is a better system, because with a carbon fiber, we got it on the seat post. On the mountain bike, we can use the top tube, it's not going to hurt anything.Next up, I'd want to know how well it stands up. It's got two legs out here in the front, you can see, and they go out pretty far, so that's going to compensate for the weight that the bike adds, but it's not just two. There's actually a third back here, that helps hold it in place, so it's not just sitting on those front two you've got this back here. I'll push it around a little bit to show you. I'm pushing it, not being easy on it, and it's not going to try and fall forward or anything on you. I'll push it from side to side. It can take quite a bit and not fall over, so that gives me more confidence that I can leave this up and not worry about a gust of wind or something just knocking it on the floor. You're not stuck with just this one way of the clamp working. You can actually loosen this knob back here, and then you can move the clamp the way you need it. You do have that 360 of movement, so you can pretty much get the bike any way you need it to be, when you're working on it.The weight capacity of the entire stand is 60 pounds. It can handle much more than just your carbon frame bike. We can get a mountain bike like we have off to the side that I'm going to put it here and install. It would probably even work with some fat tire bikes, maybe even an e-bike after you removed the battery, if you need to work on those. Pretty much any bike you have, is going to work with a stand. Now, all it takes to remove or add a bike is you just turn the knob here, and the vice-like clamp opens up so that you can get that out. I'll come back with my mountain bike. I think we're going to do the same seat post way we did with the other bike. Going to slide it in there. You can rest the seat on the top, it can hold that so you don't have the hold up by yourself. I'm going to go ahead and lift up on it just a little bit, and then start turning this, so the clamp holds the seat post. Now, it is rubberized on the inside, so you have to worry about it damaging the seat post, or the frame if you we're to attach it to your frame on your mountain bikes. It's not going to damage anything.Now, let's test it up here. I'll push around on the bike up front. You saw me pushing from back there last time. This is a heavier bike, now. This would be me bumping into it on accident in the garage, or something like that. It's not going to fall over. I'm pushing it pretty good. It's scooting a little bit, but it doesn't even show any signs of tilting over. This is what it looks like when it's holding it by the frame. Now, only works for the frames of an inch and seven-eighths of diameter, so as long as yours is less than that, it's going to work just fine with it. The clamp does the same. Nice tie-clamp around the top tube. You can see, I can push it around a little bit. It's not shaky. It's moving a little bit, but again, no signs of tilting. It's just as secure holding it this way, as it was this way. Overall, the working height for your stand, up to the clamp is going to be 55 inches, and that's from the ground up to here. That's what you've got to work with, in terms of height.Now, when you're not using it, you can break it down for easier storage. You're just going to come down here at the bottom and pull this pin out. It takes a little bit to get started. I pushed from the other side. I wonder if you lift it up it takes that pressure. Yeah. If you lift up on the main part, it takes that pressure off that pin so you can pull that out. Then you can just work the legs up like this. It'll stay in position. It makes it way more flat, and easier to store. Just replace the pin and it will keep everything in place. Another thing you can do is actually fold down the clamp arm, it tilts that way. The side, with the cutout, is the way it'll tilt down. Just loosen that all the way, so it tilts. I'll turn the knob to secure it like that. Now, this is what it gets down to, and how compact it gets, which makes it way easier to store in the back of your truck, or your garage.Overall, I think it's a pretty good bike stand. I learned a lot about what somebody would actually need to do to fix their bike, and how they would use it. When I look at it, I'm not big on cycling. I go mountain biking every once in a while, but I don't think of the intricate parts of picking apart the tires, and fixing the chains, and all that. I usually have Joe do it for me. He explained to me what he looks for, and how he would use it, which made a whole bunch of sense to me. I was impressed it just stands up when you push it. I don't have to worry about it falling down. It seemed like it was going to work out pretty well. Well, thanks for hanging out and I hope this helped.